How ****ed is the Southwest?

[Pitt Gorilla]

I'm sure most people heard about the dead dude found in a barrel in Lake Mead. This underscores the crazy drought conditions that have been plaguing the southwest since 2000 or so. Now, **** appears to be getting real real.

Colorado River Reservoirs Are So Low, Government Will Delay Releases
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/c...r-drought.html

Groundbreaking Law Requires Businesses Replace Decorative Grass
https://www.nevadabusiness.com/2022/...orative-grass/

Etc.

Any CP folks actively dealing with this situation?

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

Rain man is 100 percent correct

Search up the water cycle. You are drinking dinosaur pee, plant sweat, others urine (without the bad stuff)

Here, we are drinking pee from St. Cloud, we use it, clean it dump it back into the river so Red Wing can do the same thing.

We’re these the dinosaurs Jesus had as pets?!?!

/jjjchiefs

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by displacedinMN

Beer is roughly 90-95% water

— UberFacts (@UberFacts) May 6, 2022

Beer stays on the don't touch list. Water needs to be saved, look elsewhere.

We need to let radishes, turnips and Okra go the way of the Dodo bird to save beer? Then let them die.

[loochy]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Here's a naive question about water.

We're a closed system. When we drink water it doesn't cease to exist. We sweat it out or we urinate in jdubya's back yard and it goes into that whole evaporate-rise-condense-fall cycle. So theoretically we should never run out of water; we should just cycle it faster, right?

I guess there are some practical issues. Maybe some sinks into the mantle or gets salty or something. But on the other hand, we know the recipe for water and as far as I know there's a lot of hydrogen and oxygen floating around.

How can you even ask that? Your name is RAIN MAN. YOU should be educating US on the water cycle.